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Golly 1.5 for iPad is now available from the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/golly/id553184760 Changes to version 1.4: * Fixed a number of bugs that caused the app to freeze. * Rule files are displayed alphabetically. * Auto-correction when editing text has been disabled. * The app always runs...

If you use Golly on a Mac with an M1/M2/M3 chip then I strongly recommend downloading the new build of golly-4.3-mac.dmg I've just uploaded to sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/golly/files/golly/golly-4.3/ This build fixes a bug in the Silicon code that can cause Golly to crash if you ru...

Some time in the next few days I plan to release version 1.5 with these changes: * Fixed a number of bugs that caused the app to freeze. * Rule files are displayed alphabetically. * Auto-correction when editing text has been disabled. * The app always runs in Light mode. If you know of any other bug...

muzik wrote: ↑

September 6th, 2024, 8:03 am

This is less of a bug, but shouldn't all directories be placed before individual pattern files rather than mixed with each other alphabetically?

The latter is how the macOS Finder normally displays files and directories, at least on all the Macs I've used.

... only large RLEs with incorrectly-formatted headers are able to trigger the error, with the following header consistently doing so: x = 0, y = 0, rule = B3/S23 I tried using that header with some large patterns and had no problems doing a paste. Please post an entire header+pattern that reproduc...

Unfortunately, Golly 1.4 for iOS retains the file-overwrite freeze glitch from Golly 1.3, ... Yep, I can now reproduce this bug. Quite serious, so if I can fix it I'll do a 1.5 release in a few weeks (to give time for more bugs to be found). I've got bad news regarding a related glitch - Pasting RL...

In the above screen images there is a thin white bar at the bottom of the screen. What is that for? I don't see it on my iPad so is it only present on iPad Air devices?

I am noticing that on my specific device (iPad Air 4th gen) there appears to be a new white bar at the very top of the screen: That's deliberate. I added the space because in portrait mode I didn't want the "..." button to overlap the Faster button. Furthermore entering and exiting full screen will...

A visual issue similar to the first image of this post is spotted on some long Help pages like File Formats. ... Sorry, I can't reproduce that issue on my device. A typo is found under the Non-totalistic rules section of QuickLife in the Rule dialog and Algorithms page. The first link says "B3/2a34...

Golly 1.4 for iPad is now available from the App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/golly/id553184760

I think I've fixed most of the problems in version 1.3. Everything seems to work ok on my new iPad (9th generation) running OS 17.6.1.

Golly 1.4 for Android is now available from the Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.sf.golly Changes: Two-finger pinching can be used to change the font size in the Open/Help/Rule screens. Fixed a problem with the Open screen's font size being too large on small devi...

Looks good. From my tests it reduced the GDI handles from over 5000 to 570 on startup. Presumably Golly could also crash if 5 or more (non-cloned) layers are created. Chris, I'm unable to reproduce any crash on my Windows VM so can you please commit Vort's changes and test for any problems. I have ...

I don't know if this is the right thread, but in the mobile version 1.3 the text is too large: ... We're currently working on a new version of Android Golly but haven't been able to reproduce this problem on any of our devices (with Android versions ranging from 5.1 to 13), so please provide specif...

Running this script from a beta version of EmnumPattEvo crashes Golly. I think it is not designed for Golly, but it is unclear why it crashes Golly if I attempt to run it. Golly isn't really crashing (there is no crash log). Golly is exiting because the script calls sys.exit(). Probably not a good ...

I ran the same pattern in 3D.lua on Ubuntu 22.04. With display refresh rate set to 60 Hz, the pattern evolves for about 60 ticks per second. With display refresh rate set to 48 Hz, the pattern evolves for about 48 ticks per second. Ok, so the only anomaly seems to be when I run 3D.lua on my Windows...

However, I see 64 generations per second in QuickLife. Ok, that makes sense. The timer firing rate is only approximately 60 gens per sec. On my Mac I typically see about 62 gens per sec -- this is because we set SIXTY_HERTZ = 16 for Mac/Linux in wxprefs.h (the wxTimer interval has to be an integer)...

I then changed my monitor refresh rate to 30Hz and repeated the experiment. In both cases I got 300 steps in 10 seconds (30 per second). That's odd. Maybe wxMSW is now doing the same throttling as wxMac (but only on Win 11?). Or maybe it's done automatically by the OS? Can you bump the refresh rate...

From my brief experiment on Windows 11: Golly uses the monitor refresh rate for the event loop. This is both for 3D.lua and if you're running B3/23 in QuickLife. Actually, Golly uses a 60 hertz timer to generate patterns, so if you run a small pattern like a blinker at a step size of 1 it should do...

AlbertArmStain wrote: ↑

June 1st, 2024, 4:50 pm

When I try to paste it into the web version of Golly, it simply ignores it too

Works fine in web Golly on my Mac in Firefox and Chrome, so use a different browser or ask the author of catforce to generate nicer RLE.

AlbertArmStain wrote: ↑

May 31st, 2024, 5:43 pm

The web version will not load my catforce output rle while the downloaded version of Golly will.

Please provide a short example of some RLE code that fails.

backspace doesnt work right on the web version I've uploaded a new web version of Golly 4.3 that now supports the backspace key (aka delete) to clear the selection and shift-backspace to clear outside the selection. Also, the tab key will now advance by the current step size, and I've updated the p...

Well, Golly is classified as "game" even through it's a simulation program itself rather than a game. Is there any reason of classifying it as game? The phrase "Conway's Game of Life" could be a clue. Not that it really matters, but if it was classified as a simulation app (arguably the correct cat...

tommyaweosme wrote: ↑

May 23rd, 2024, 6:47 am

does no one care about the web version?

Apparently not. The web version currently doesn't support the delete (backspace) key so you'll have to use the items in the Edit menu to clear inside/outside the selection.

FlutterWithKSparkler wrote: ↑

May 23rd, 2024, 3:50 am

Some issues has been found in the Golly 1.3 release.

Thanks for reporting those bugs, and for uploading the apk file. We'll try to fix those bugs in a future release. Not sure when that might happen -- we probably need to wait a couple of months and see if any other bugs are found.

PHPBB12345 wrote: ↑

May 22nd, 2024, 2:04 pm

Google play store is blocked in mainland China, maybe upload to Trevorrow's server?

Can't you use a VPN to bypass that block?